The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just completed an investigation into a new FBI Orwellian program. The FBI program, in collaboration with government investigators, aims to develop advanced image recognition software with the intent of capturing our tattoos in an effort to identify who they belong to: "gangs, subcultures, religions or rituals, or political ideology."
The project was launched in 2014 at the initiative of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and seeks to map "connections between people with similar tattoo issues or draw conclusions about people from their tattoos."
Besides, of course, on various issues of freedom of speech, there may be significant moral concerns about the ambitious FBI project.
But with the EFF and NIST documents the researchers could not find out if the tattoos were used for additional experiments with prisoners and arrested.
Still, they continue to watch very closely the FBI project, which does not seem to want to suspend the program.
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